Friedrich Engels Quotes

• If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.

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• The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

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• The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.

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• The state is not ‘abolished’; it withers away.

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• [The] English proletariat is becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat as well as a bourgeoisie. For a nation which exploits the whole world this is of course to a certain extent justifiable.

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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• All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

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• Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

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• Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

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• From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

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• Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

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• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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• The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

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• The state is not abolished, it withers away.

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• The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

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Friedrich Engels (15)

Birth:	28th November, 1820
Death:	5th August, 1895
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Author, Businessman, Economist, Journalist, Philosopher

About

Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen, Prussia. He was a German philosopher, journalist, author, social scientist, economist, and businessman. He was the eldest son of a wealthy German cotton textile manufacturer. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, though he also authored and co-authored many other works, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. He also engaged in other literary and journalistic work.

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